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Do absolutely not "encourage them to let go on their own". When discovered use tweezers or a tick-removal tool to remove it as soon as possible. Make sure to pull as close to the skin as possible.

All old folk-remedy things with butter and alcohol only risks the tick to go into shock and spew saliva into you, increasing the risk for lyme disease/tbe or borrelia.

Just pull it straight out, it's safe and easy, done it a dozen times.

Also get vaccine for lyme disease if you are in an area where ticks pass it on, it is a horribly crippling disease and not worth the risk however low.

That was surprisingly fun, I got it after 3 or 4 tries. Keep hacking on it!

The original paper presenting it earlier this year:

http://www.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8000...

"The Nokia PureView Pro imaging technology is the combination of a large, super high resolution 41Mpix with high performance Carl Zeiss optics. The large sensor enables pixel oversampling, which will be explained in detail in this paper but in a nutshell it means the combination of many pixels into one perfect pixel. PureView imaging technology is the result of many years of research and development and the tangible fruits of this work are amazing image quality, lossless zoom, and superior low light performance."

So yeah, PureView vs PureView Pro or something. Still feels more like widening a brandname used on something that got people excited.

For me it's plumbing. Flush the toilet, get rid of waste through a hidden underground network and it just works in the middle of a city with millions of people doing it every day.

It also gives me perspective of the enormous debt I owe to (hundreds of) thousands of people "just doing their job" for me to be able to sit where I am and do my part of it. Just from the vantage point of my office chair, the things that surround me have been touched my so incredibly many people during their production and delivery to here.

Around ten years ago I worked as an instructor teaching people programming here in Sweden. My company decided I did such a good job they would send me over to their parent company in the UK to teach some classes there. I knew the material by heart so, no problem, I thought.

I quickly discovered, right in front of the class at the white board with marker in hand, with my first " { " written, that being fluent in English was NOT the same as being fluent in Spoken Programmer English.

My second realization was that almost nobody in the United Kingdom spoke a dialect of English that I could comprehend, but that's another story.

Bonus info: { } are called commonly called måsvingar/seagull wings in Swedish, which really gave me no hint at all what to call them in English.

Yes, I thought the same thing! Really shows the value of running tests with people with other backgrounds.

Just for fun I tried saving a document in Microsoft Office 2007 here with a filename containing slashes. I got a slightly better response: "Ogiltigt filnamn" (Illegal filename). Not as confusing, but still no help at all on what was wrong with it or how to correct it.

As mentioned on the page we've had the letter for a long long time in the alphabet, however since almost no swedish words started with it, V and W were sorted together in dictionaries and other word lists like phone books.

The best part about that was that even though it has a separate pronunciation (V: 've' and W, 'dubbel-ve'), when used in abbreviations it is common to say 've' instead of 'dubbel-ve', so when the web came along everybody said 've ve ve dott' for www. instead of 'dubbel-ve dubbel-ve dubbel-ve dott'. Which is nice.

You mean like this web framework's website has?

http://www.liftweb.net/

A small warning: I tried using raphael.js for a project just a couple of months ago and discovered a big flaw. Transformations/rotations and scale-functions are not "stackable" which might come as a nasty surprise after a while.

For example, I designed a number of subcomponents using rotate and scale operators, then I wanted to use them as parts of the whole. The result is very weird when you first get it as it is only the last transformation of each kind that survives which results in everything thrown all around.

But that said, if you stick to one coordinate system you will be just fine. The animation-hooks and the event-hooks might just be worth it. Just don't try to think vectors and transformations/rotations just because it's vector graphics.

(I ended up using canvas and excanvas for that project which worked fine even though the printouts weren't as pretty)